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Kick-off meeting of CULTIHAB – Cultivating Inhabitation in Spain’s Agricultural Enclaves (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 21 November 2025)
On 21 November 2025, I took part in the kick-off meeting of the research project CULTIHAB at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (IUEM, Madrid). Led by Yoan Molinero Gerbeau and Jehonathan Ben, the project analyses housing, everyday spaces and spatial segregation in Spain’s main agro-industrial enclaves, with a focus on migrant agricultural workers and the implications for labour, housing and human-rights policies.
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas (27 October 2025)
Public lecture & book dialogue
On 27 October 2025, José Casanova (Georgetown University) delivered the lecture “Religious diversity in our global age: the role of the Jesuits as pioneers of globalisation” at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICAI-ICADE, Madrid). The event included a public dialogue around the book Religious Diversity in Post-Secular Societies (Springer, 2025), with its editors Zakaria Sajir (University of Salamanca) and Rafael Ruiz Andrés (Complutense University of Madrid).
https://www.comillas.edu/noticias/las-religiones-son-ejemplo-de-convivencia/
Complutense University of Madrid (28 October 2025)
Research seminar & book presentation
On 28 October 2025, José Casanova gave the lecture “Religious diversity in post-secular societies: a historical–global perspective” in the Board Room of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid. The session combined a research seminar with a discussion of Religious Diversity in Post-Secular Societies (Springer, 2025), in conversation with editors Zakaria Sajir and Rafael Ruiz Andrés.
Visit of the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation to CCHS–CSIC (Madrid, 25 May 2022)
On 25 May 2022, I took part in the institutional visit of Diana Morant, Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, to the Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS–CSIC) in Madrid. As a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD), I was part of the group of researchers discussing the specific challenges of research in the social sciences and humanities, including precarity, funding structures and administrative barriers.
Il Manifesto, Italian national daily newspaper (24 October 2020)
Review by Francesco Antonelli of Vivere non è reato. Lavoro ambulante e diritto alla città (Ombre Corte), highlighting my chapter “Il ‘marocchino’ che non è marocchino: un linguaggio che conviene” on racialised language and migrant street vendors in Italy, and its role in constructing “new dangerous classes.”
https://ilmanifesto.it/spazi-e-conflitti-a-proposito-di-lavoro-ambulante-e-diritto-alla-citta
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